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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-30
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suits then ascertained, as follows:
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specially Christian Advocate.
General organ Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South Twenty pages each week. a pure paper tor
the old and young Only = year.
Sunday-schooI Periodicals.
Eight periodicals for Sunday-school teachers and
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When Baby was sick We gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
when she became Miss, she clung to Castoria
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-30

G, toS VI. Rhodes Tin Slop and
rail- for G cd Tin Ware aud you will
get it.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-30
OVER THE STATE.

Work is progressing rapidly al the
Insane Asylum near Bolivar.
A coored military company has
leen organized in Shelbyville.
The survey for the Chattanooga
Western Railroad is completed.
A gas well has been struck near
Livingston in Overton county.
The Knoxville and Nashvill Rail-
road is graded nearly to Shop Springs.
The 10Th district in Weakley coun-
ty hasn't got negro in it, male or fe-
male.
Flux has assumed a most maig>
nant form in some parts of Giles
county.
A negro hoy named NickIes was
drowned in the Forkei Deer river last
Wednesday,
Dick Hoover, negro raplst, was
riddIed with bullets near Baskerville,
Friday night.
A vein of coal four feet thick has
been discovered in Campbell county,
near Jackshoro.
The breaking of fue in the ice
factory nearly caused ice famine in
Chattanooga last week.
j. 0. Revel, of Obion county, gath.
cred 1878 bushels of wheat from 90
acres, or nearly SO bushels per acre.
The site of the custom house at
Chattanooga will be ready for the
foundation of the building within
three months.
The West Tennessee Wing says the
Illinois Central road will socn make II
surver for a branch line from Jackson
to Brownsville.
The receipts of the Chattanooga
postofice for the fiscal year were $32,
1858, a gain Of 1864 per cent. over
the preceding year.
R. Fl. Yancey, of the GAINESVILLE
Tobacco Leaf, has accepted the posi-.
tIou Of associate editor on the Birm
ingham Morning Herald.
The Jacksboro Sentinel launche,
this cannibaIistic threat at the JellicC
News man: ave will turn our at
tention specially to this star editor
He is our meat.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dempsey johnson, o
Knox county, who are respectively g.
and so years old, have 100 descend
ants. Seventysix Of the member tool
dinner with the old folks last week,
A young man in jackson is eatinI
peaches of a tree that grew from
sprout with which his mother "cor
rected' him years ago, lie stuck th
twig in the ground and it grew RICH
along.
The Athens Mining and ManufaC
turing Company assures the publ
that dirt will he broken for The Jellic
road lust as soon as The sale OF Io
aggregates certain limi;, which
now nearly reached
Patsey Barton, Il Scott county w
man, was tried in Knoxville last wee
for selling mooushine whisky from
hollow stump, which represented h,
bar. When customer came aIol
she would tell him to 90 and "suC
the stump" The court dismissed h
with lecture.
The Dyer county hoom Is IN veI
robust condition, according To Il
State Gazette aad the Times. II
last court had presented 10 1t on
torty.one indictments, ahout one-hf
nf the average number pre- r"led O
yaf.w years ago. The crops cou
not he Better.
Lexington progress; On last Frid
nighta house on the place of old M
John Keen, in the 10th district, "
burned by an inceudiary. Constab
Rock Names arrested John Owe
Saturday morning and guarded h
until Sunday night, when Owe
made his escape. We learn later Ii
Mr.. Keen has had his wife arrest
8 ,,r,,,licitv IN tho bti
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Green's Anti Bilious and Liver Compound
cures all diseases of heliyer amt malnrial and
ague feyers. Price SOC. For saio by Stewart
Il Banner.
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Greens Golden Balm is sur. eu-e Cor r1-
tarrh. Price SOC. For sale BY Stewart 81
banner.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-30

If voa are in need Of Tin Roofy .
and Gutte-ing, give 5. NJ. Rhodes ii
trial He warrants his work.
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PREMIUMS.

$50 for the largest club-----$5O
40 for the second largest club 40
80 for the third largest club 80
20 for the fourth largest club 20
10 for the fifth largest Club 10
5 each for the next FIVE largest
luOS------ -------------- ~
2.50 each for the next ten largest
cIubs------------------ rs
100 each for the next one hun
bred largest clubs--------- 100
, 1887-04-08

There is a fact but little known which
well illustrates the ravages rats can inflict
on a hard substance by their little, sharp
teeth. Many of the elephants tusks inn
ported into London are found to have
their surfaces grooved into small burrows
of unequal length and depth, as though
cut out by a very sharp edged instru-
ment. No man would take the trouble
to do this so carefully, but the rat has
found out the tusks which contain the
most gelatine-a most delicious morsel
for his palate-and he gnaws away as
much as suits him and leaves the rest for
the ivory worker, who is neither unable
nor unwilling to profit by the fact marked
by the rats teeth. The ivory which con-
tains a large amount of g%elatine is softer
and more elastic than that which does
not, and as elasticity is the thing needful
for billiard balls, he selects this rat
gnawed ivory, and turns it into beautiful
elastic spheres, TO be used upon the finest
billiard tables. The elasticity of some of
these balls is SO great that, when thrown
forcibly on a hard floor, they will re-
bound to the height of three or four feet.
Boston Herald.
, 1887-04-08
Shopping In tho Bon s1arche.

My new and gracious friend piles my
plumber on q chair and pushes it before
her over the slippery floor until we come
to the department of -, where the
battle begins over again between the
affectionate desire to influence my choice
and my wavering wish to suit myself,
always SO sweet, always SO complying,
and, after all, SO ready to yield when
they find out what you are after, these
polite shop persons. The chair grows
heavier az it is piled higher, and l am
conveyed to ono after another gracious
friend.
And now oil is over. My last escort
takes me to the desk, here she rehcarees
to the cashier every item on each Of the
little papers, all CT which she in
herits from her predecessors. A duct
of ''quinze, soixante-quinze, quatre-
vingt, ~soixante q%uinze" of incredible
rapidity, while he filings down these
numbers in n big folio with q ~profusion
of long tailed French ives. Ping! he
gives me the amount, which, Of course,
exceeds that in my purse, owing to my
prudent caution in taking out q moderate
sum only, in order not to spend too
much. Very well, then, send the whole
home this evening with the facture. l
give my address, and patiently spell my
difficult name, then walk out of the shop,
after many bonjours of course, with q
vague feeling that nothing will como of
it, and my purse still full of money.
But late in the evening, while we arc
coy before ouf fire with the lamp aud
candles and the novel by Guy de Mon
PEASANT, comes q solemn tap at the door,
and a big man from the Bon Marche,
with 4 red face and q livery faced with
rcd and great brass buttons, enters with
Il parcel that fills up all the rest of the
room. He has the very moderate, let
Inc say), bill and the right change and
no makes it and goes.-Paris Cor. Boston
Gl7,sa.
, 1887-04-08
Western Neck. Becoming Thinner.

at is a curious fact" said the mana
ger Of a wholesale furnishing goods house,
THAT the necks of the western people are
gradually growing smaller. Ten years
ago l was in the Office of q concern which
made a specially of collars for men. In
stocking up the Chicago house the firm,
whose factory was in the east, had put in
q lot of 10 Ia collars. For these there
was no sale at all, and the Chicago mana
ger finally wrote to the factory that they
need more send him any 10 Ia
collars, as the west had no use for them.
Well, to-day every retail store in town
carries a line of 10 1-2 collars, and there
is quite q trade in goods of that number"
Chicago Herald.
, 1887-04-08

Ono may DO desultory over ones dinner
to some good purpose, or even in the en-
1oynent Of n holiday, but in writing for
ones daily bread, never. In the infantile
stage Of my apprenticeship 1 would never
move toward the ink pot unless I were
impclled by q very vigorous inspiration,
such as resulted in my tragedy or my first
novel, and l would then write or. and on
with incredible disregard for the clock.
AS q natural consequence of this sacrifice
of the body's well being, my work had
been uneven; tho spark of genius was
smothcred in smoke.
Dut now (and | confess not without a
sigh I gave up oil pfctension to the Claim
of genius. cufTcd and coerced the hap
lees ambition within me until it did not
dare oven assume q phantasmal import
ancc in my dreams. When l had my work
before me, I watched my minds move
ments Us suspiciously as n weak father
watches the development of n strong and
disobedicnt son. When my spirits capered
i let them caper, but 1 did not work until
they had done cap>ring. By these ruthless
Ncpoleonic measures of self suppression
l fitted myself for n successful pursuit Of
literature. Literature may well be fepi-
nine; she leads her votaries n pretty dance;
and, once having caught her, there is no
getting free from her.-Au the Year
Round.
, 1887-04-08

Kissing the bride at q wedding is no
longer fashionable, 80 the clergyman who
o~iiiciGtes ut society weddings in future
III iliaJ the labial perquisite. Indeed,
kissing in public is no longer permissible
in good society, and q reserved and re-
fined womanhood has been long in rebel
lion against this usage without having
abolished it until quite recently. This
public may DO her own invited and well
coined guests, but all the same she OBJ
jects to being kissed in their presence,
and very properly. Indeed, few brides
are willing to have their wells raised and
thrown backward until they have left the
church. This also is in excellent taste. ="
Social Etiquette.
, 1887-04-08

The English take their pleasures sadly"
somebody remarked once, and the saying
has passed into a proverb which the Eng
lish themselves appear to accept. Think
it is very untrue. 1t is like Sydney
Smiths libel on the Scottish race. 1t re-
quires no surgical operation to get a joke
into q Scotchman's head. He may not
roar till the hills echo, o shoot q person
who will not laugh with him, as they do
in Texas, but his quiet enjoyment of a
good joke is none the less appreciative on
that account l am beginning to think
that the English know how to enjoy
themselves better than almost any other
nation. An Englishman doesn't make
an exhibition of his enjoyment Luke
Sharp in Dctroit Free Press.
, 1887-04-08

A MOVEMENT is reported on foot in the
northern part of johnson county to agi.
tate for the e~rention of a new county,
with Sheridan as county seat. There
must be some reason to apprehen1 such a
design, as the Big Horn Sentinel i, out
in opposition to the scheme. This par
ticular movement may be premature, but
it is certain that the next legislature will
have its hands full in the matter of ar
ranging new counties in such a way as to
suit everybody. In this. as in everything
else, tho wishes Of the greater number of
people concerned should be consulted.
Three or four new counties may be needed
and desired. Two seem TO be absolutely
naroeearv
, 1887-04-08

The most accomplished penwoman CT
penman among the 5000 and more gov
eminent clerks is Mrs. Helen NJ Avery,
of the interior department. Her chirog-
raphy is a model of uniformity and clear
ness. She is also a clever pen and ink
artist. A head of Tasso drawn by her a
few years ago is said by connoisseurs to
be equal to the finest steel engraving.
She does her work rapidly, and apparently
without effort. Her duties occupy about
two hours a day. The rest of the time
she occupies as she chooses. Her position
in the department is supposed to be as
near an approach to a life tenure as the
most successful government employee can
hope to obtain. Her salary is $1,000
per annum Boston Transcript.
, 1887-04-08
THE federal judiciary has kent itsel

THE federal judiciary has kept itself re-
markably free from party politics. In
the supreme and circuit courts there has
been no exception to this rule. The cleo
toral commission does not count, as il was
a nondescript body wholly unknown to
the constitution, and discharged functions
foreign to the province of a court. The
supreme court has been composed almost
entirely of members of.one political faith,
yet its action has so uniformly ibeen
bipartisan that it has annulled the favor
lite measures Of its own party. The crea-
ton Of two new districts and q few vacan-
eies in the lower courts, caused by death,
have given President Cleveland his only
opportunities Of appointing federal Judges,
and his selections have been made with
deliberate care. Before the end Of his
term, however, it will probably devolve
upon him to elevate some Democrat, con
spicuous for purity aud legal knowledge, to
the supreme bench.
, 1887-04-08

A friend who was living in Dresden n
few years ago tells me this nnecdotc. She
was sitting alone in the gallery one day,
gazing at the Sistine Madonna, when two
or three American women entered the
room. ''Well,' exclaimed one OF them,
who lad never seen the famous painting
before, II must say I'm disappointed.
After ell I've heard about 1t, / expected to
sec something Il good deal Shower thar
that Her friend was cast down for q
moment. but presently plucked up heart
enough 10 say npologetically; But you
forget how old it is. Considering how
loag AGO il was painted, l think IRIS pretty
well dcne.'-The Critic.
, 1887-04-08

The prisoners in the jail have a peculiar
superstition regarding one Of the stones in
the Jail floor. 1t is down on the east side,
and in the morning about exercise hour
the sun falls straight upon it. The super
stitious ones believe that when one of the
men charged with murder steps on that
stone it indicates in some way, supposedly
by a change Of color, whether the man
will be hung or not. I have been in
formed that it's a sure sign, and that
the indication has never once been found
to be wrong. The negroes believe that
every man at whose step that stone
changed to dark color event out in the
back yard" which means that he was
hung.-Jailer in Globe Democrat.
, 1887-04-08
A coMMuNlcArIoN was presented

A COMMUNICATIONS was presented to
the interstate commission yesterday by
Leland Stanford on behalf Of the South
ern Pacific Railway company. of which he
is president, setting forth the necessity
which exists for that company to be able
to compete with TIE Suez canal and the
Panama railroad. This is evidently true
as to freights from China and Japan, and
the fact tends to complicate matters. A
similar difficulty arises from the compeii
ton of the Canadian Pacific with the
American transcontinental lines. The
object Of the numerous applications to the
commission, is to obtain an authoritative
construction Of the doubtful provisions OF
the law. Judge Cooley replied to Cover
nor Stanford that the commission hold
that if the company. rather than take the
responsibility Of constituting the law fol-
itself. still calls for authoritative action,
the case must be presented by petition in
the regular way.
, 1887-04-08

"What perplcxes me about these subur-
ban people,, said n Boston man on his
way in Monday from q Sunday spent with
q suburban friend, sis tho universal shnb-
biness of the men and the bright, neat mp
pearancc Of the women. Look Mt this
great train load trooping down the sta
toni Scarcely q man in the lot but is de-
cidedly shady in his clothes. j can't ac-
count for it, because they IRE mostly well
to do people beyond n doubt" a"1hat's
it, said his host; "thcy are getting to be
well TO 90 people, and most of them have
gone to the country to build up their cs-
tates and keep their families IN better
style. They are the sort of men who care
n great deal more for their families thar
they do for their own comfort md CON
venicnoe; that is the reason they have
gone into the suburbs to live. So they
have fallen into the habit Of stinting
themselves for the snlsc of their families,
and going about stability dressed. Some
of them have got rich, but the shabby
habit sticks to them. boston Tran
script.
, 1887-04-08

While Gen. Lee was president Of Wash
ington college, q visitor asked how a GER
tain student was getting on.
HE is a quiet, orderly young man.
answered the president, ''but he seems
very careful not to injure the health Of
his fathers son. He got last month only
forty on his Greek, thirty-five on his
mathematics, forty-seven on his Latin,
and fifty on his English, which is a very
low standing, us 100 is our maximum
Now, / do not want our young men to in
jure their health, but l wish them to come
as near it a possible. Youths Com
panion.
, 1887-04-08

Women, as q rule, are ashamed to let
1t be known that they work for money.
To employ them assumes a quasi charita-
BILE aspect quite detrimental to success,
which very greatly increases the difficult
ties of the position. 1t cannot be too
strongly insisted upon that honest labor,
conscientiously performed, is q matter
for pride, and that until all namby PANTY
ideas to the contrary are swept away it
will be impossible to help mi in the
battle of life. There are thousands Of
unhappy women who are fruitlessly
looking for the same thing-a comforta-
BILE home, good salary and nothing to do.
London Queen.
, 1887-04-08
FOLLOWING the example of congress,

FOLLOWING the example of congress,
the state OF Nebraska has been trying its
hand at making laws in restraint Of alien
ownership Of lands. As no provision
seems to have been made for restricting
the powers of corporations the law will
remain a dead letter. A corporation
chartered by the state, though an artifi-
fetal person, is sufficiently naturalizsd,
and may hold land to the LIMIT OF its
chartered privileges, ne matter who shall
own the stock.
, 1887-04-08

Charles Emerson, nephew of Ralph
Waldo, married a beautiful Bohemian
abroad. and probably would never have
returned to reside in America if his wife
had not met her husbands uncle. ''Foi
two years. she said, two lived alone on
the side of n mountain in Switzerland.
One day l heard of a famous uncle of my
husbands and l wanted to see him. We
went to Paris where he was staying, and
he wa SO kind, SO polite, so good,
wanted 90 80 to his country, and We
came. Now York Sum-
, 1887-04-08

In a trough sketch" Of the present
knowledge of earthquakes, Professor G.
II. Darwin says that the vibration of
severe shocks, even, are very shorts One
of a quarter Of an inch is su ictnt to
shatter brick and stone chime ys.f Data
indicate that the initial point of disturb
ance is, as a rule. near the surface of the
earth, ranging from one and a half to
seven miles below. In rare instances this
has been excelled.-Frank LeslIe's.
, 1887-04-08

PHILADELPHIA has recently been pro-
vided with a new official, who has just
como on duty. He is called director OF
public safety, and the peculiar functions
he is supposed to try to execute are the
suppression of gambling. the enforcement
Of Sunday laws and other like legislation.
, 1887-04-08

James r. Randall, tho southern poet
who wrote the stirring war lyric, Mary.
land, My Maryland, " turns out to have
been inspired by Cupid no less than
Mars. He loved one of the beauties for
which Baltimore is famous while q
student at the Georgetown college, just
before the war, and she awakened The
enthusiasm that made him write his i'm.
mortal poem n few months later.-Chi-
cago Herald.
, 1887-04-08

THE New York Sun still keeps up its
attacks on the administration. SO long
AS the really Independent press approves,
it is better that the Sun should condemn.
It's support has been moro fatal than its
opposition, in the past.
, 1887-04-08

THE city government of Cheyenne does
well to encourage by all legitimate means
in its power every enterprise which prom
ises to increase the prosperity of the whole
community. 1t is economical to pursue
such a course and, better still, it is right.
, 1887-04-08

| have used Chamberlain's cough
Remedy. IN fact will now use no other
kind. It promptly relieves coughs and is
~uneoualled for the throat and lungs.
Robert A. Neff, comedian with Peck's
Bad Boy company, Denver. Colo. March
/, 1887. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
is sold by w. N. Hunt, druggist.
, 1887-04-08

TEMPERANCE legislation has assumed n
novel form in Virginia, where it is pro-
posed to tax tho drinkers instead Of the
sellers Of liquor. making it unlawful to
sell to any person who does not produce a
license-the license to cost 81. 90. and the
proceeds 20 to the school fund.
, 1887-04-08
RATES OF

DAILY LEADER. a. transient advertisements
10 cents per line each insertion. c consecutive
iIsertions 4 cents per line one month 5 cents
per line.
Minor mention notices. among local reading
matter, Is cents per line each Insertion.
WEkkI.Y RAIDER. all transient advertise
ments Is cents per line first insertion one
month, % cents per line SIX months 10 cents
Ger line one year 8 cents per line. Marriage
md birth notices sI.0u each. No Advertisement
inserted for less than % cents.
II. GLAFcKR. Publisher.
, 1887-04-08

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums, al
lays the pain, cures wind colo, and is the
best remedy for diarrh@a- Twenty-Five
cents q bottle.
, 1887-04-08

NCN,N triac with any Throat or
Lung Disease. If you have
n Cough or Cold, or the children ARE
threatened with Croupo OIL Whooping Cough,
use Acker's English Remedy and proven
further trouble. 1t is u Positivo euro
md we guarantee 1t. Price 10 and Coo
Pearse & McGill, Druggists.
, 1887-04-08
AT THE cabinet meeting Yesterday the

al THE CABINET meeting Yesterday the
attitude of Great Britain on the fishery
question was discussed. 1t is understood
that the Canadian position is sustained.
The claim to the Tortugus islands in
liquidation of an old debt from Hayti, is
likely to give rise to a protest on the part
Of the United States.
, 1887-04-08

Envy vlcs % mean shpirit, but II my
nciEhlcr's cahlarcs vlas bigger ash mine
II Nha' natural dot 1 vlas glsdt II his baby
vim eross oyed.-Carl DunAer.
, 1887-04-08
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

Daily. delivered by carrier. CSC per week,
81 per month.
Daily. bv mail. 81 Dor month. $40 for six
months, $40 per year, -, advance.
Weekly SIS per annum, sl.O for six months,
oavable In advance.